Tag Archives: Art and Revolution

For John Burnside (1955-2024)

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

For John Burnside, “anarchist” poet and writer, who died this last month of May. … a true anarchist … [does] … not need a glorious leader, or leaders, to save us from the nightmare. What we need, each of us, … Continue reading →

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Daniel Blanchard: Regarding what poetry does

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

For Daniel Blanchard, the second part of an essay that began with the “Crisis of words“. To men who discover the world by looking for a rhyme. Italo Svevo Thus, throughout this “crisis of words” – which I evoked in … Continue reading →

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Daniel Blanchard: Crisis of words

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

At the social level, when a gigantic corporate, media and political engineering imposes, demands and expropriates at the same time the word, have not the silent majorities been for years an ambivalent black hole that express in their own way … Continue reading →

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Poetry against the state

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From Lundi Matin (#420, 18/03/2024), we share below an interview with Luis Andrés Bredlow and a memorial to him by Anselm Jappe (Lundi Matin #115, 30/09/2017) after Bredlow’s death. Our hope is that these may serve as a modest introduction … Continue reading →

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The Politics of Women’s Blues

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

We share two texts on women’s blues as a radical questioning of sex, gender and race in the racist and hetero-patriarchal social relations of the United States. In the first, which provides the title to our post, Hazel V. Carby … Continue reading →

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For Edward Bond (1934-2024)

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

SAGA I asked the man at the crossroads why are you waitingHe said I have no shoes on my feetMy stomach is emptyMy dwelling is repossessedA man In a nice suit with heraldic cufflinks stole my walletAnd my coat is … Continue reading →

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The anarchy of dance/the dance of anarchism

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

A little wisdom is no doubt possible; but I have found this happy certainty in all things: that they prefer—to dance on the feet of chance. Friedrich Nietzsche, This Spoke Zarathustra [Contact improvisation] came out of Grand Union. We were in … Continue reading →

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For Steve Paxton (1939-2024)

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Five years ago, we wrote a short piece lauding Steve Paxton’s work as a dancer and his vision of dance, which we entitled: “Anarchic movement: Ambulations in thought after Steve Paxton”. This week (21/02/2024), we learned of his death. In … Continue reading →

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Palestine: The attempt to erase a people’s arts

Posted on February 19, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

We want to thank +972 Magazine for the generous permission to publish an article on the Israeli authority’s assault against Jenin’s (West Bank) Freedom Theatre and the broader Israeli war on Palestinian artistic expression. +972 Magazine is unquestionably one of the most … Continue reading →

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The “Deaths” of Poet Writers: Nour El-Din Haggag and Refaat Alareer

Posted on December 11, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

From lundimatin, #407, December 11, 2023 … The young Palestinian writer and poet Nour El-Din Haggag has just died on December 5, followed on December 7 by the poet Refaat Alareer, after the bombing of their house in Gaza. One … Continue reading →

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